@noreply: "Posted at 2010-02-09 09:09 GMT by RevK
Update #0: 2010-02-09 09:10 GMT
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We are making some changes to usage levels for our unit based tariffs
for _April 2010_ as detailed below.
The changes take effect during March 2010 and will apply from the
following regular bill (i.e. April onwards).
_Important_ this does not affect your chosen tariff or the regular
monthly cost for that tariff. You may want to adjust your tariff during
March to allow for the changes, or you may want to wait and see how the
changes affect you first. It is up to you to choose the correct tariff.
More 21CN peak usage
We are increasing the peak usage allowance per unit for 21CN and FTTC
lines from 1�GB per unit to 2GB per unit. This is a huge increase in
peak usage allowance for these lines. Customers with high daytime usage
tariffs on 21CN and FTTC lines may want to request a lower tariff
during March to apply from the same bill.
Change of 20CN off peak usage
We effectively increased the off peak allowance for home users in
January when we changed to units tariff. Last year our /basic/ tariff
included 50GB or off peak allowance and now the entry level 2 unit
tariff includes 200GB (assuming no peak usage). We are now changing the
off peak usage allowance per unit for 20CN lines from 100GB per unit to
50GB per unit. This means the entry level 2 unit tariff has 100GB of
off peak allowance which is twice that of the old /basic/ tariff. A lot
of home users download less than this so will not be affected, but if
you do have high usage off peak you may like to increase your tariff
during March to apply from the same bill.
More Be off peak usage
We are increasing the off peak usage for Be lines from 100GB per unit
to 125GB per unit.
Usage levels per unit from April 2010
_Line type_
_Daytime_
_Eve/Weekend_
BT 20th century ADSL1
1GB/unit
50GB/unit
BT 21st century ADSL1/2+
2GB/unit
100GB/unit
BT Fibre to cab VDSL
2GB/unit
100GB/unit
Be ADSL2+/Annex-M
8GB/unit
125GB/unit
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    @dwmw2: "<quote>
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That doesn't seem like such a reasonable assumption.
Um, that seems a little disingenuous. The old basic tariff didn't _just_
give you 50GB of off-peak usage; it gave you some peak time usage too.
Wouldn't it be more reasonable to say that the entry level 2U tariff is
still basically equivalent to the old basic tariff, which offered 1GB of
peak usage and 50GB of off-peak?
=20
dwmw2"
    @nospam: "<quote>
I agree. I'm on 21CN so I'm getting a better deal out of these new charges 
(thanks!), but it is not like AA to spin a price increase for some people to 
make it look like it isn't one. The simple fact is that because of BT charges, 
AA have had to increase off-peak rates for 20CN to the same as they were last 
year for basic package users, and double them for users on higher tariffs. I 
understand this is probably unavoidable, but there is no need to try to pull 
the wool over our eyes."
    @newspost: "Ian Smith <email_address> writes:
<quote>
For someone on 20CN who downloads between 1+51 and 1+100, with the
current charging this is 2 units but from April will be 3. For people on
20CN  whose current off-peak usage is more than 100M will see even
larger price increases - eg if someone currently on a 3-unit tariff uses
1+200 then they will have to upgrade to a 5-unit tariff."
    @nospam: "<quote>
Someone who was on a 20CN 3G/month or higher tariff in 2009 was allowed 100G 
off peak. That translated to 4 units in the current system, with the extra unit 
buying 100G off peak. From April that extra unit will only buy 50G.
I agree that this will only affect people who used a large proportion of both 
peak and off peak allowances under the 2009 system. Those who use either almost 
all peak (business?) or almost all off peak (home?) are generally still better 
off than before the units system, but not as much better off as they have been 
in January-March 2010."
    @news: "<quote>
There is no increase for 20CN on peak, the increase is for 21CN and/or 
BE only.
Getting less than amused by all this, Adrian's claim that somehow there 
is no change (again, the 3rd useage change in recent times?) when I've 
gone (without changing tariff and CAN'T change from 20CN without moving 
ISP) 1G peak, unlimited off, to 1G peak and 50G off (with off as yet not 
clearly defined - what is happening to the off off peak overnight?) 
coupled with the reduction in performance following the backhaul switch 
to 21CN which still rears its head now and again and the, again very 
woolly, change to charging for email use.
Frankly, if it wasn't for the dire LLU options (sky/orange/ talktalk/ 
AOHell) then I'd have been off long ago, as it is, the sky option is 
starting to look more and more attractive.
Jeff."
    @nospam: "<quote>
Me too ... but I assume you are on 21CN like me. It's 20CN people who will be 
marginally worse off."
    @stevejswift: "<quote>
I suspect this is at the root of some of my confusion. I thought I was
on 4Gb/Month yet found myself with 5 units. 
With all this spare capacity, I started downloading stuff between
02:00 and 06:00 - I hope it isn't me that is causing the "Evening
latency" problems. :-) Strange new use of the word "Evening" if so.
Steve Swift
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